# CVE-2019-14823: A flaw was found in the "Leaf and Chain" OCSP policy implementation in JSS' CryptoManager versions after 4.4.6, 4.5.3, 4.6.0, where it impli

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-10-14 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Dogtag JSS: affects \>= 4.4.6, affects \>= 4.5.3, affects \>= 4.6.0

## Description

A flaw was found in the "Leaf and Chain" OCSP policy implementation in JSS' CryptoManager versions after 4.4.6, 4.5.3, 4.6.0, where it implicitly trusted the root certificate of a certificate chain. Applications using this policy may not properly verify the chain and could be vulnerable to attacks such as Man in the Middle.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Dogtag JSS, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14823
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3067
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O53NXVKMF7PJCPMCJQHLMSYCUGDHGBVE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UZZWZLNALV6AOIBIHB3ZMNA5AGZMZAIY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ENEN4DQBE6WOGEP5BQ5X62WZM7ZQEEBG/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3225

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